Board of Directors

Jeremy Blank is partner at York Capital Management, a global private investment fund with approximately $15 billion in assets under management, where he has served since 2005. Previously, he served as a vice president at Morgan Stanley’s fixed income department, and as an analyst in Morgan Stanley’s mergers and acquisitions department.

Jeremy currently serves on the boards of directors of Insightec Ltd., Arq Limited, and Prime Credit in Hong Kong. He graduated from Yeshiva University in New York City with B.A. in finance.

Sam Geha was named senior vice president of the Memory Product Division at Cypress and a board member of Enovix in 2016.

Sam previously served as the senior vice president of the Intellectual Property (IP) Business Unit, where he oversaw licensing Cypress’s various embedded nonvolatile memory technologies (SONOS and eCT) to foundries. Prior to that, he was the vice president of the Technology R&D organization. He also founded and wrote the business plan for Deca Technologies, a Wafer-Level Chip-Scale Packaging start-up, funded by Cypress and SunPower.

Sam joined Cypress in 1995 and initially served as the senior director of technology development for SONOS and the director of technology development for MRAM and SRAM technologies. Prior to joining Cypress, Geha worked in various technology development functions at Motorola and National Semiconductor. He holds a B.S., M.S. and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona.

Peter Moran has been with DCM Ventures for over 15 years, and he has served as a member of the Enovix board since 2008.

Prior to joining DCM, Pete helped launch and subsequently led the Computer Products business for Arrow Electronics. Previously, Pete worked at McKinsey & Co. where he managed engagements with a wide range of electronics, entertainment and communications industry clients. He was also a core leader of the founding team of McKinsey’s Silicon Valley Office. Prior to McKinsey, Pete worked at Hewlett-Packard on high performance mixed signal semiconductors and helped manage the growth of KLA Instruments’ wafer inspection division from infancy to worldwide market leadership.

Born in the Philippines, Pete lived the nomadic childhood of a military son. Though his early years were spent in the Mojave Desert, England and Singapore, Pete will tell you New Orleans, where he attended high school, is where he hails from. Peter holds a B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, an M.S. in electrical engineering (leaders for manufacturing fellow) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an M.B.A. from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Michael J. (Mitch) Petrick is a special advisor at Riverside Management Group, a boutique merchant bank specializing in the secondary trading of private company shares, capital markets advice, and primary capital raises. From 2010 – 2016, Mitch was managing director and head of The Carlyle Group’s global market strategies segment as well as a member of the firm’s management committee.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Mitch spent 21 years at Morgan Stanley, his last role serving as managing director and global head of institutional sales and trading responsible for Morgan Stanley’s equity, commodity, fixed income, capital markets, and principal direct investment businesses. In this capacity, he served as a member of Morgan Stanley’s 12-person operating and management committees.

Mitch has served on the board of directors of several companies, including Marvell Entertainment LLC, DigitalGlobe, Inc., and TVN Entertainment Corporation. He also serves on the advisory committee for the University of Chicago Innovation Fund and as director of the Cancer Research Institute (CRI). Mitch graduated with a B.A. in chemistry and economics from Grinnell College and earned an M.B.A in finance from the University of Chicago.

T. J. Rodgers founded Cypress Semiconductor Corporation in 1982, and he served as president, CEO, and a director of the company until 2016. He has served as a member of the Enovix board since 2012.

T. J. is a former chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and SunPower Corp. (solar energy systems) and currently sits on the board of directors of high-technology companies, including Agiga Tech (nvRAMs) and Bloom Energy (fuel cells). He is a Trustee Emeritus of Dartmouth College, his alma mater.

T. J. was a Sloan scholar at Dartmouth, where he graduated in 1970 as Salutatorian with a double major in physics and chemistry and won the Townsend Prize as the top physics and chemistry student in his class. He attended Stanford University on a Hertz fellowship, earning a master’s degree (1973) and a Ph.D. (1975) in electrical engineering. At Stanford, he invented, developed, and patented VMOS technology, which he sold for cash and royalties to American Microsystems Inc. (AMI). He managed the MOS memory design group at AMI from 1975 to 1980 before moving to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), where he ran AMD’s static RAM product group until 1982.

Harrold Rust co-founded Enovix in 2007, and he has been a member of the board since 2008. As CEO, he leads the development and execution of an innovative battery business model with new approaches to technology, design, and production.

Prior to Enovix, Harrold was vice president of operations at FormFactor, a leader in the design and production of patented 3D MEMS contact technology for semiconductor wafer testing. During his 5-year tenure, he led operations from research and development through pilot production to high-volume manufacturing. This helped set the stage for a successful IPO in 2003 and contributed to an 370% increase in annual revenue, from $79M in 2002 to $369M in 2006.

Before FormFactor, Harrold spent 17 years in operations management at the IBM thin-film disk-drive head operations in San Jose, CA. He led an organization of 250 engineering and manufacturing personnel that continually met production goals while reducing cost-per-wafer by 50%. He also assumed financial plan responsibility for IBM’s global disk-drive head operations in Asia, Central America, and Europe. Harrold earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from U.C. Davis and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.

ABOUT ENOVIX

Enovix is building a next-generation lithium-ion battery to increase energy density and improve safety. Our patented 3D cell architecture enables a high-capacity silicon anode to increase energy density by 30% to 80%, depending on cell size. And our patented 3D cell architecture includes features that reduce the danger of explosion and fire from thermal runaway. We’re backed by strategic relationships with Intel, Qualcomm, and Cypress and over $150 million in venture, strategic, and private funding. We’ve been awarded over 50 patents and have over 50 more pending that will create sustainable enterprise value and provide a competitive barrier for years to come.